Contraception for Adolescents During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Our recent publication, Providing Contraception for Young People During a Pandemic is Essential Healthcare, was written in response to the sudden shift towards low-contact or no-contact medicine in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ensuring access to contraception is essential as every 6 months of lockdown can result in 47 million women losing access to contraception, resulting in an additional 7 million of unintended pregnancies. We welcome the letters submitted by Alouini/Venslauskaite and Uzoigwe/Ali as they exemplify common misperceptions within the medical community about contraception. The question of whether a physical exam is required prior to a contraception prescription, the safety of emergency contraception, and abstinence counseling are addressed below

Research on the Geography of Agricultural Change: Redundant or Revitalized?

Future research directions for agricultural geography were the subject of debate in Area in the late 1980s. The subsequent application of political economy ideas undoubtedly revived interest in agricultural research. This paper argues that agricultural geography contains greater diversity than the dominant political economy discourse would suggest. It reviews ‘other’ areas of agricultural research on policy, post-productivism, people, culture and animals, presenting future suggestions for research. They should ensure that agricultural research continues revitalized rather than redundant into the next millennium

Video intervention to increase perceived self-efficacy for condom use in a randomized controlled trial of female adolescents

Study Objective: To assess the effects of the Seventeen Days interactive video on young women’s perceived self-efficacy for using condoms six months after being offered the intervention, relative to a control. Design: Multisite randomized controlled trial. Setting: Twenty participating health clinics and county health departments in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Participants: Sexually active females ages 14 to 19: Interventions: Seventeen Days (treatment intervention; sex education) versus Driving Skills for Life (control intervention; driving education). Main Outcome Measures: Perceived self-efficacy for condom use. Results and Conclusions: Participants in the Seventeen Days group reported higher perceived condom acquisition self-efficacy after six months than those in the driving group. This finding held after controlling for baseline self-efficacy scores and other covariates. The Seventeen Days program shows promise to improve perceived self-efficacy to acquire condoms among sexually active female adolescents—an important precursor to behavior change

The Challenges of Institutionalizing Community-Level Social Accountability Mechanisms for Health and Nutrition: a Qualitative Study in Odisha, India

Background: India has been at the forefront of innovations around social accountability mechanisms in improving the delivery of public services, including health and nutrition. Yet little is known about how such initiatives are faring now that they are incorporated formally into government programmes and implemented at scale. This brings greater impetus to understand their effectiveness. This formative qualitative study focuses on how such mechanisms have sought to strengthen community-level nutrition and health services (the Integrated Child Development Services and the National Rural Health Mission) in the state of Odisha. It fills a gap in the literature on considering how such initiatives are running when institutionalised at scale. The primary research questions were ‘what kinds of community level mechanisms are functioning in randomly selected villages in 3 districts of state of Odisha' and 'how are they perceived to function by their members and frontline workers’

Réponse à C. Ducos, P.-B. Joly, M. Moreaux

Berlan J.-P. Réponse à C. Ducos, P.-B. Joly, M. Moreaux. In: Économie rurale. N°165, 1985. pp. 50-51

Cultures feminines et pratiques creatrices

National audienceAnalyse des pratiques creatives des femmes dans l'economie, la politique. Consequences de leur engagement dans la vie active sur leur vie de famille, leurs relations avec les hommes, le tissu social, le monde rural